Hello Krita Artists!
This is a discussion thread and WIP thread for our Monthly Art Challenge for March 2025. Ask any questions about the challenge or share your works in progress.
The March Art Challenge was designed by @Elixiah.
When your submissions are ready, post them in the submission thread linked below.
Congrats! @Elixiah!
Interesting idea, but yet another landscape challenge, my worst nightmare! 
LOL I think I have an idea this time though, to make it more interesting for me - and I share it here now just in case anyone find it stimulating too: I’ll try and find a place that I can “fantasicise”, which mean I won’t go for a faithful copy but keeping the general elements, make the scene as if it was from a fantasy story! 
@Corentin It doesn’t have to be a landscape! Explore around the views. Many are inside buildings with people, interesting objects, etc. I know you will find something you’ll like. You’re very creative! Something I typically struggle with. 
Can I use a photo from a place that I love to go?
@Eliza_Miranda I moved your question out of the challenge thread and into the one where we can ask questions and discuss the challenge throughout the month.
Use Google Maps to navigate to the place you love and explore the street views there. I’m sure you’ll find what you like in that same place. 
Hey everyone… these little blue circles in Google Maps are great 360 off-street views and worth checking out. Many walking trails are also mapped and make great references too.
Well, if we’re gonna share funny locations, I have one! Did you know that the country of Hobbits could be in Belgium? First you need to know that in French, “The Shire” was translated as “La Comté”. Well, there’s a village with exactly that name not too far away from me! And the landscape is totally appropriate! 
Check this!
Darn you @Elixiah !
I told myself I would focus on my other art project rather than working towards the MonthlyChallenge this time around… but… This one seems like such a good idea I can’t pass it up! I watched some videos on Plein Air technique and it’s a style I want to improve on. So ya. I might just use CoPilot for the other thing for now… AI’s output is way better than what I can paint anyways. 
I’ve watched GeoGuesser matches on YouTube and I’ve never thought, “Wow, I might like to paint that location.” The random GeoGuesser image locations always seem to be on barren roads in the middle of nowhere.
Thanks for your MapCrunch suggestion! So many cool things here! Ya, when I started playing around I needed to press “go” a few (hundred) times to find something cool. But after playing around with it and finding out how to apply filters I was able to find some cool places.
@Elixiah : It looks like panning is allowed, is it also cool to zoom in and focus on things in the image to help with composition?
@Corentin : MapCrunch has so much more then just landscapes!
For example:
I could continue my Kiki ‘WhiteOut’ phase from last summer with this door:
There are tons of crazy still life opportunities:
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Want to paint someone golfing this month? No problem!
I have even found a… movie? …Play? …Band?.. poster here! If zooming is allowed, there has to be a fun thing to do with “I am Chikin”, right? If not, the Plastic, bottles, and tapestry offer some really cool challenges!
All of those were found just by using the filters: Urban, Inside, and Japan!
Heck, with a little more surfing I even found a coral reef! I guess this counts as indoors in Samoa!
I’ve just been clicking around and saving links to places that look interesting. At some point I’ll pick a favorite one, or two if I do the challenge part, to settle down on and get painting!
With enough seaching, I’m betting there will be plenty of fun and creative things for us to play around with this month!
Can’t wait to see what everyone creates!
Want to paint the Eiffel Tower? Here you go!
Don’t worry, plenty of other great shots of it are available… Like This one taken on the steps of Palais de Chaillot:
Original Link: (https://maps.app.goo.gl/T6rhiPc6ckM2zDnC8)
Why does this bus have an Eiffel Tower-shaped antenna on its roof? 
Just kidding! 
Because it’s a French bus, obviously! 
@steve.improvthis YES! Anything and everything that can be found on the map views! Just add a link with your entry(s). 
Oh what a nice challenge! 
I’ve done some mapcrunch studies in the past and i totally love it.
(here is my favourite so far)
I think i’d like to try something different, like combining two locations in one or something like that, if that’s allowed? 
SLIGHT CHANGE IN CHALLENGE RULES:
I didn’t realize it at first, but if a screenshot of the map is included in the submisisons, it’s going to be difficult in some cases for me to know which image to include in the poll and which one to disregard.
Please do provide the link but not the screenshot.
If you included a screenshot already, please edit your submission post to remove it. I’m happy to help anyone with this if they don’t know how or don’t yet have forum permissions to edit posts.
Hi @iLykCoffee
Do you see a pencil icon at the bottom of your post? If yes, click that to edit. If you don’t see the pencil icon, you may not yet have system permission to edit, in which case I can edit the post for you.
@Corentin I tried searching for movie posters with landscapes… i didn’t find very many 
Google kept putting out posters in the landscape format instead of a landscape, lol; Google Search
But as mentioned already, mapcrunch/google maps aren’t solely just street views. There are plenty of options.
Anyways, here is what I’m working on for this month;
I have, however, started on this mapcrunch pleinair waaay before this challenge started. I won’t be turning this one in since I started it before this month;
It’s almost finished. I’ll be trying to juggle between the two paintings this weekend.
@edgarej I’m not surprised you can’t easily find movie posters with a landscape as main illustration, since a movie is most likely featuring actors and the main actor/actress is almost always the subject of the poster! 
But it exists, most of them being in the “disaster movie” genre. Here are some examples: 2012, The Day After Tomorrow… but also 2001: A Space Odyssey (if you consider the space station as a landscape).
I think you should submit your mapcrunch view, it doesn’t matter when you started working on it, as long as you didn’t publish it before! 
I don’t see any pencil 
Please edit it for me. Thank you! 
